u/Saxon2060

Image 1 — Watch strap help to restore my/dad's watch to original
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Watch strap help to restore my/dad's watch to original

When I was a child in the early 2000s, my first big boy watch was a Timex Expedition. I was a very outdoorsy kid and I remember being really proud of it and wearing it until the strap fell to bits.

I guess I "outgrew" it and left it at home and it turns out my dad adopted it and wore it for quite a number of years until he died a few year ago. My mum gave me the watch and I wore it until the generic strap she'd put it on also broke.

I'd really like to return it to original if possible but I can't pin the specific watch model down and there is no model number on the case. However, pic 2 is what I am certain is the strap that was on it originally, and it's from a single listing I've found, where it's no longer available: https://www.watchbattery.co.uk/shop/products/WSTX-9T77862.shtml

The canvas section was blue/brown, I've found some that are green/brown (also out of stock) but it was certainly blue, like this listing/picture. And it is 18mm at the bar.

I'm not very good at the ol' AI but I "asked" it to search based on the picture, and it suggested that some places occasionally do sell dead stock of old/obscure watch straps and I wondered if anyone had any tips about tracking this down.

u/Saxon2060 — 3 days ago

Coheed live experience

This is a weird one because I'm posting because I've just watched a totally different band. But bear with me.

I love live music. My wife loves love music more and she was never a Coheed fan before but!

We saw Coheed and Cambria for the first time last year in Birmingham Academy, UK. It was absolutely joyous. I've been a fan for 20 years and the gig was more than I ever hoped. I went to see them in Manchester the same week, it was excellent! But Birmingham was better. Just a truly wonderful experience.

We went to see a different band tonight, who the band was isn't important but it's a band I love, in Birmingham Academy.

It was dreadful.

The BAND was good. Great, even. Perfect performance. But the fans were insufferable. Such an aggravating and tense atmosphere. Everyone had main character syndrome. No camaraderie, no kindness, no love, no joy.

So without labouring the point, this showed me something. I had a truly magical experience watching Coheed here, and the band I just saw? It SUCKED.

The Fence is an honestly fantastic community of fans and it was a transformative factor in the joy of the gig.

Thank you, all you anonymous people I'll never meet. My experience tonight watching a totally different band made me love Coheed more. Sorry for offtopic.

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u/Saxon2060 — 6 days ago

Birmingham gig

Anyone going to the Halcyon tour, you're in for a treat. Enjoy the band, they were great.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who was there tonight.

Disclaimer: I've seen Kingfishr in another city (my home city) and I've seen other bands in Birmingham Academy. Thoroughly enjoyed both. Apart from that I've been watching live music for 18+ years.

The Kingfishr crowd tonight in Birmingham was the worst crowd I've ever been part of. Ever. Genuinely. Borderline ruined it.

There were a lot of people and they made a lot of noise for the band which was great. But interpersonally, just dreadful. It's like everybody had main character syndrome! I don't expect to have a conversation with every, or any, person in a crowd in a gig, of course, but the whole crowd seemed so annoyed and *aggravated* by being in a crowd, I've never seen anything like it. Every interaction I had with another person it was them being agitated. Zero camaraderie, no sense of enjoying something collectively. Everyone just seemed annoyed that everyone else was in their way.

It really gave me a sad smile, the delicious irony when Eddie introduced Killeagh and said "it's hard to explain what hurling is to audiences outside Ireland, but this song is really just about being part of something bigger than yourself" and likened it to the community of Kingfishr fans...

And then a hundred phones went up to silently film the first minute of the song and ruin it for everyone behind you.

It all made me sad and I likely won't see Kingfishr again. I'll continue to be a fan from my home. Shame since I love live music and the last band before this I saw before this I'd been waiting 20 years to see and it was more than I ever hoped for. And the other time now I saw Kingfishr a few years ago in a smaller venue was joyous.

Was anyone else there tonight? What did you think?

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u/Saxon2060 — 6 days ago